Fontamara

<p>Poor citizens of southern Italy under Mussolini's fascist regime struggle to prevent the legal theft of their water supply</p>

Literature & Fiction

Ignazio Silone

Literary

Signet Classics

One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy.  Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war.

Bread and Wine

Bread and Wine (Signet Classics)

Contemporary

Signet Classics 1986

Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a controversial figure throughout his life. He was a communist until 1931, later referring to himself as a 'Socialist without a party and a Christian without a church.' He wrote Fontamara first and foremost as an antifascist, setting it in his own region of Abruzzo, east of Rome. He describes the sufferings of the peasants, the cafoni, still living under feudalism and further burdened under the new fascist regime of Mussolini. The story itself is a good read, told with humour and suspense. The themes embrace politics and religion, revolution and mysticism. They raise such Italian problems as regionalism, the clash of ideologies and the ways of portraying them in literary form. The form of the narrative itself is an experiment in getting across a vital message in a fraught time. This edition includes an introduction and notes which help to set the novel in its historical and political context, both in Italy and the rest of Europe in the decade before the Second World War. The vocabulary section is exhaustive, making the text suitable for those just coming to grips with the language.

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Vino e pane. (Lernmaterialien) (Easy Readers) (Italian Edition)

Grafisk Forlag

KiWi Taschenbücher, Nr.55, Wein und Brot

Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Fontamara.

Kor Kitap

<p>One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy.Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war.</p>

Vino e Pane: Easy Readers - Italian

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Il Segreto DI Luca (Italian Edition)

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

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